Other News - 05/17/2005

Baltimore/Washington International Airport and Southwest Airlines are preparing to move the airline's operations to the new Terminal A/B in a phased transition beginning tonight and running for approximately two weeks. Terminal A/B is a 510,000-sq.-ft. facility providing new food and retail concessions and 11 gates that are connected with 15 SWA gates on Concourse B to create a 26-gate concourse for the carrier, the airport's largest tenant. The all-in cost for the complex was $264 ...

Settling into his new role as the head of IATA, director general and CEO Alexandre de Juniac has made clear his frustration with government policies that fail to recognize the value of aviation....More

The world’s airlines will continue their streak of collective profitability in 2017, but anticipated higher costs, coupled with a sluggish global economy that lead IATA forecasters to believe next year’s industry net profit will be almost $6 billion lower than 2016’s expected profit....More